# Marie Curie Cancer Care and Tesco launch Charity of the Year partnership

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/02/14/marie-curie-cancer-care-and-tesco-launch-charity-year-partnership/
- Published: 2008-02-14T14:41:58+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Marie Curie Cancer Care and Tesco yesterday launched their Charity of the Year
partnership at the flagship Tesco store in Kensington. The partnership, which lasts
until 31 December 2008, will see Tesco staff committing to raise funds for their
local Marie Curie nursing service.**

Under the theme of ‘Providing more nursing care at home’, Tesco staff and customers
are aiming to raise £2.5 million to fund an additional 125,000 hours of nursing 
care for patients and their families in local communities across the UK.

Throughout 2008, Tesco staff will be getting involved in fundraising events in store
to raise funds for the charity.

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Tesco customers will also be able to raise funds by purchasing selected products
in store where a donation is going directly to the charity.

Products available now include:

* Ten pence from every specially-labelled card purchased from the Tesco standard
range of Greeting Cards will go to Marie Curie throughout the year

* A donation from the purchase of fresh Speciality daffodils in store will go to
the charity

* A Marie Curie Cancer Care spring bouquet is available from Tesco.com with £2 of
the purchase price going to Marie Curie

Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Corporate and Legal Affairs Director, Tesco, said: “One of the
key attractions of our fundraising campaign is that it is geared towards helping
people at a local level. Marie Curie Nurses provide a vital service for terminally
ill patients and their families in local communities throughout the UK and I’m sure
that our staff and customers will really get behind the campaign”.

Since 1988, Tesco has chosen a different charity every year to be the focus for 
staff fundraising. The Tesco Charity Trust then adds 20% to all staff fundraising

www.mariecurie.org.uk/tesco

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